A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…

Before the King was restored, being then at London, I was called to preach two public sermons; t•• one before the Parliament, the day before they voted the Kings return; The other before the Lord Major and Aldermen on a day of thanksgiving for the hopes of his return. In the latter I plainly showed my sense of the case of the falling party, and the Armies actions, and gave as plain a warning to the then rising party, with some prognostics thereupon. In the former (the first that ever I preached to a Parliament, and he last,) I spake some words of the facility of Concord with the sober godly moderate sort of the Episcopal Divines, and how quickly Arch-Bishop Usher and I came to an Agreement of the terms on which they might Unite. When this Sermon was Printed, this passage caused many moderate Episcopal Divines to urge me to tell them the terms of that Agreement; And they all professed their great desires and hopes of Concord upon such terms; viz. Dr. Gulston, Dr. Allen, Dr. Bernard, Dr. Fuller, Dr. Gauden, and several others. Dr. Gauden desired a meeting to that end of the several parties, but none came at the day appointed but he and Dr. Bernard, and ⟨p. 29⟩Dr. Manton and I; where I spake these words, which he Printed without the limitation annexed, which I set right in my next Printed Book, viz. That I found (then) little or nothing in the doctrinal part of the Common prayer Book, which was not sound, having but as favourable an exposition as good mens writings usually must have. He left out [the doctrinal part]

Before the King was restored, being then at London, I was called to preach two publick sermons; t•• one before the Parliament, the day before they voted the Kings return; The other before the Lord Major and Aldermen on a day of thanksgiving for the hopes of his return. In the latter I plainly shewed my sense of the case of the falling party, and the Armies actions, and gave as plain a warning to the then rising party, with some prognosticks thereupon. In the former (the first that ever I preached to a Parliament, and he last,) I spake some words of the facility of Concord with the sober godly moderate sort of the Episcopal Divines, and how quickly Arch-Bishop Usher and I came to an Agreement of the termes on which they might Unite. When this Sermon was Printed, this passage caused many moderate Episcopal Divines to urge me to tell them the terms of that Agreement; And they all professed their great desires and hopes of Concord upon such termes; viz. Dr. Gulston, Dr. Allen, Dr. Bernard, Dr. Fuller, Dr. Gauden, and several others. Dr. Gauden desired a meeting to that end of the several parties, but none came at the day appointed but he and Dr. Bernard, and